Meretrix stantoni

Meretrix stantoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeretrixPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61.66 Mya – 59.24 Mya66.5 Mya47.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Meretrix stantoni on record, most of them in the Paleocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

14 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Martinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WSilverado — 33.87°N, 117.71°WSilverado — 33.81°N, 117.76°WSilverado — 33.81°N, 117.68°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WSanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.54°W

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The named rock units Meretrix stantoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Meretrix stantoni and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Meretrix stantoni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

168 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Meretrix stantoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

6 references

Each of the 14 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Meretrix stantoni

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1914)